Fish-bait.



Patented Nov. l8, 'l902.

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FISH BAIT.

(Application filed Mar. 24, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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BENJAMIN F. MCCURDY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO EDWINA M. MOCURDY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FlSH-BAIT.

SPEGIEIGAEION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,907, dated November 18, 1 902.

Application filed March 24, 1902. Serial No. 99,761. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. McCURDY, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fish-Bait, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved fishbait; and it consists in the structure or article shown in the drawings and set forth in the following description.

In the drawings which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved bait. Fig. 2 is a top or plan View thereof, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

It has been found by experience that an attractive casting-bait for fish, and especially for pickerel orbass,is ormay be made of a strip of raw pork, preferably salt pork, whether because of its softness, flexibility, and color I cannot pretend to say; but the fact remains and is known to fishermen that this bait is a successful one for catching fish. Sometimes fishermen have used such a bait with a hook which is provided with red feathers or other red material secured to the hook, and this has been found to improve the catching qualities of the bait.

I have discovered that the bait is rendered still more effective if the red material-such as red flannel, for exampleis attached immediately to the bait itself instead of to the hook, as this gives a more life-like appearance.

To make my improved bait, I take a piece of pork-rind with a portion of pork adhering thereto and shape the same roughly in the form of a minnow, the rind preferably forming the back of the minnow. I pierce this piece of pork-rind and attach near the head of the fish-form and about where the red gills of the fish would be in nature a piece of red flannel. This bait may beiaffixed to the hook-point, as an ordinary minnow is fastened, in any position; but I prefer to hook it through the front part of the head, as indicated in the drawlngs.

In said drawings, A represents a strip of pork-rind with a portion of the fat pork A adherent thereto, the Whole piece being shaped roughly in the form of a minnow, as indicated in the drawings. B is a strip of red flannel or like material passed through two holes in the fish-body and the ends depending at each side in sight. A portion of this red flannel can be seen from whatever point the fish is viewed. This fish-form of salt-pork rind and pork may be easily manufactured, being cut out with a die and the strips of flannel thereafter threaded through the same,and the completed article will keep for along time if a number of them are done up in a suitable box or package. If the porkis not sufficiently salt to keep well, a portion of salt may be put in the box or package with the bait. By treating the bait in this way-that is to say, packing a number of the baits in a box as an ar ticle of manufacture-it may be readily put upon the trade, and thus handled as an article of trade and will prove to be much superior as a bait to the ordinary artificial baits made out of metal or even to those made out of inodorous tasteless soft material-as, for example, rubber.

I claim 1. As an article of manufacture, the artificial bait made of a piece of pork-rind with a portion of the pork adhering thereto, cut in the form of a minnow and having a piece of fabric attached directly thereto, substantially as specified.

2. As an article of manufacture, the artificial bait consisting of a piece of pork-rind cut in the form of a minnow and having a piece of fabric attached thereto by being passed through two holes in the minnow, substantially as specified.

3. As an article of manufacture, a box or package of artificial minnows made of saltpork rind, each having a piece of fabric attached thereto, and containing an antiseptic preservative, substantially as specified.

BENJAMIN F. MCCURDY.

lVitnesses:

H. M. MUNDAY, EDw. S. EVARTS. 

